#Function that POSTS the string to eliza website and formats the reply
# my_dialog is the string that we POST to the www-ai.ijs.si website
# obtains the reply from eliza scripts and prints it on the screen

def eliza(my_dialog):
params = urllib.urlencode({‘Entry1′: my_dialog})
headers = {“Content-type”: “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”,”Accept”: “text/plain”}
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(“www-ai.ijs.si”)
conn.request(“POST”, “/eliza-cgi-bin/eliza_script”, params, headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print str(data.split(‘‘)[2]).split(‘\n’)[1]
conn.close()

# invoking the eliza function to test it’s functionality in pythonic way
if __name__== ‘__main__’:
eliza(‘I love python’)